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How’s the eye this morning OP? All good or regretting not taking all the advice above about getting it checked??
Eye feels fine, I’m 95% sure I’ve got away with it. I’ve looked really carefully in both eyes up close with a torch and I can’t see any fragments. I have looked at various YouTube videos of what grinder sparks look like if they get embedded in the eye and I think I’d be able to see them if they were there. I might still give the local eye causality clinic a call to see what they think but to be honest I’m more concerned about the Covid risk of spending time in a hospital.
Scary things. Sitting in the middle of it and whats hidden under that seemingly innocuous plastic cover.
That's CT, not MRI. Most MRI machines are just a bunch of static magnets inside. But yes it's pretty insane how fast CT scanners spin (and how unaware you are when you're in the room - they're not noisy). Were anything to shake loose from the inside, arguably the safest place in the room would be the centre of the that thing!
Update:- I called The hospital eye casualty clinic who referred me to a local optometrist for an initial assessment. Thankfully I’ve been given the all clear. Will definitely be wearing goggles next time!
I did this grinding the wheel arch of a car, ignored it for a few days until it started feeling worse and I was able to see it in my eye. Went to he hospital where they informed me it was imbedded in my eyeball and was forming a rusty halo and needed to be removed pronto, queue one of the most unpleasant experiences of my life. I'm terrible about anything going in or near my eyes I can't do eye drops and have no idea how people can do contacts. So I had to rest my face in some weird sex dungeon contraption while the 4'6" nurse called me a big baby for two and a half hours while trying to flick the shard of metal out of my eye with the tip of a syringe, it must have been several hundred times I saw that needle heading for my eye and flinched before I managed to hold still, urrgghh....